It's a great kindness to trust people with a secret. They feel so important while telling it.

Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.

Why wish for the privilege of living your past life again? You begin a new one every morning

The one word above all others that makes marriage successful is 'ours.'

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends.